This morning I went to the monthly Women's Breakfast at our church. The topic this month was, "God Doesn't Want Us To Worry." This topic was right on point for many of the women in attendance, myself included to an extent.
I used to be a worrier. I used to worry about bills, I used to worry about my kids when they aren't with us, I used to worry about what people thought of me, and I was miserable. My marriage was suffering because I would take my worry out on my husband. I could not understand why he wasn't worried about these things. I thought if he wasn't worried he just didn't care enough.
It was during a rather "colorful discussion" about our finances I laid into my husband about not caring. He looked at me and said,"I don't worry because I know God will take care of us. Not because I don't care." I had nothing to say. I guess it never really hit me before then that God cares about all our needs not just our spiritual needs. And from then on I have seen God do some amazing things to provide for us. Hundreds of dollars of checks in the mail from old accounts we never knew we're owed to us, envelopes of money left on our doorstep when we returned home from church, opening up opportunities for odd jobs and so on. God has always provided me and my family with what we NEEDED. Because of this I trust completely in my God to take care of us. We may not have everything we want but we have everything we need. Some times God has to hold back the things we want so His will can be done.
I guess you could say that God has trained me to have a blind, child-like faith in him. I pray that all Christians would come to know Him as, Jehovah Jirah, The Lord Our Provider. It breaks my heart to see people who have been Christians for many years and still have such little faith in God's ability to take care of them. As Christians we need to know God will bless us beyond any curse, beyond any plot of the enemy. But we can not let our own self-pity or doubt get in the way of God.
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